Lizzie Lindsay

by traditional

Versions of Lizzie Lindsay include:

Burns' version

Robert Burns wrote or collected a version of this ballad, which was published in The Scots Musical Museum (1771).

• "Lizzy Lindsay" in The Book of Scottish Song (1843), by Alexander Whitelaw
• "Leezie Lindsay", in The Scottish Minstrel (First Series) (1850), a chapbook printed in Glasgow
• "Lizzie Lindsay" in Fugitive Poetry. 1600–1878 (1878), by J. C. Hutchieson

Child Ballads

Francis James Child collected eight variants of this ballad, which he published in his The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1892).

• "Lizie Lindsay" in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1892), by Francis James Child